6 car brands that will leave Australia or contract to the point that they are irrelevant by 2030

@HumanEarth Australia is too small a market for almost 100 brands! So certain major brands are contracting to the point where they are no longer viable, and new Australian vehicle safety standards 'administratively wrote off' a swathe of models across a bunch of brands.

We used to make cars right here.

Oh I know, and some damn good ones. USA cars are garbage now to, nobody wants them and they so over priced and dont last past 10 years, 15 yeara if your lucky.

No more cars lasting 30, 40 or even 50 years world governments are shutting down part makers. So old cars are forced off the road

@zonavar68 I saw this one as well. Small point of order. This doesnt mean you cant get spares or repairs for existing vehicles..And the current situation is that parts are imported anyway (Except maybe a few consumables like brake pads, where local manufacturers may have a contract.) It does mean you wont be able to buy a new model once they leave, unless you do an individual import. So providing you plan to keep the car for its service life, you wont have a problem. (Who takes an older car to the dealer for service anyway?)😷

@whowasthatmaskedman Indeed for a period of time there will still be dealer service and support. GM/Holden left in 2020 (after shutting down all local manufacturing around 2016) and I believe support runs for 10 yrs then it ends.

Importing vehicles is very expensive with huge regulatory hoops to jump through, esp. with the now-tightened safety standards.

Re Jaguar specifically, it is dead and even if it does launch a fully-EV-only range, the brand is toast by suicide.

Re GM, one of my cars is a 1992 Saab 900 sedan, and GM killed Saab in the early 2000's then the brand got tossed around like a showbag for a few years after that between bespoke private owners. The rights to most Saab models were sold to China after that.

Australian-made Holden cars still have plenty of parts support due to aftermarket interest but Saab's do not and in-brand support (through Orio in Sweden) is very limited now.

Gm raped Australia by taking $150 million of our taxpayer money then left the country.

Re Jeep, that's always been basically a 'joke brand' here.

We never take a car to a repair shop. We fix everything ourselves. Thats why most of stuff is from the 70s and 80s

@zonavar68 Agreed to all. But it should be noted that GM "holden" was largely and Australian only design and product range. (In fact they did export a couple of models to the US) So closing the line means no more manufacture. But Citreon and Mitsubishi will continue overseas. I drive an Outlander myself and figure it will see me out. Since all cars are made in Japan..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman Mitsubishi might be a Jap brand, but not all of it's vehicles are Jap made. Triton for example is made in Thailand. Same with most utes for most brands not building in China.

The newest pile of junk is a 2016 pathfinder with a blow engine and the junkyard wants too much for the engine, because you just cant juat drop an engine in them anymore i guess.

So we all came up with a plan to use the AMC Scout running gear, engine, transmission and frame and set the body of pathfinder on top of the old AMC

Some modify is going to be needed, but its only going cost us 300 to 500 bucks instead of few grand

@HumanEarth That may be feasible in the USA but Zonavar hints that it would very difficult, even impossible, in Australia, if you intend to use any such car on the public roads.

It would be in some European countries too, especially ones like Germany with its notoriously strict "Original Equipment" laws.

Your home-built car would not be illegal per se in the UK but would still need pass stiff legality and safety tests to be registered for road use; and obtaining insurance would likely be an even bigger and costlier hurdle to overcome.

While also in the UK, the Indian company that now owns Jaguar and Landrover (and still builds them here), no longer builds proper Landrovers of potential value to the Army, emergency-services, farmers and certain industries.

Its excuse is that its 'Defender' did not meet EU crash-protection regulations. So instead of modifying its design so it would (as had the Japanese off-road car-makers with their products) it now merely makes expensive family saloon-cars with the "Landrover" and "RangeRover" names glued on.

@ArishMell It is legal here to, but the family is doing it anyways, but why waste a good car body